What it takes to defend a 2027 freight budget

Procurement teams building 2027 budgets are stuck between two things that don't move at the same speed:

Over the past two weeks, Xeneta has been hosting peer-to-peer roundtables with shippers in Atlanta, Houston, London and Cologne – with Singapore and Paris following shortly. Different territories, different pressure points, one shared complaint: the once-a-year tender that procurement was built around no longer matches the market it has to manage.

Ask a room of shippers what "on time" means and you get five different answers.

In Houston, the working definition was "up to five days is acceptable" on a six-week Asia–US lane, with ten days of variance treated as normal, not exceptional.

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